International Congress of Young Booksellers

International Young Publishers Meet Up at the London Book Fair

ICYB — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:51:40 +0000

When: Wed 22 April, 4-5pm
Where: Thames Room, Earls Court 1

London Book Fair will be the next home for this growing international network of publishers and booksellers. The event will provide a platform at which young publishing professionals across the globe can collaborate online and at book fairs around the world.

The hour-long session will include a brief presentation and update on the progress of young publisher networks worldwide, and then feature a number of micro-sessions in which participants will network and discuss themes relevant to their work.

For further info and registration please visit http://thesyp.org.uk/eventinfo.php?id=336

ICYB 2010 programme and registration

ICYB — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:21:52 +0000

OK, here’s what you all have been waiting for so anxiously…

ICYB 2010 will take place from June 14th until 16th in in Ghent, Belgium, followed by the IBF conference in Brussels, Belgium. Please save the date now!

You can download the conference programme and the registration form here:
Conference programme
Registration form

ICYB 2010

ICYB — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:46:13 +0000

As promised the hosting country of ICYB 2010 is now announced. The Flemish Booksellers Association is enthusiastic to organize next year´s ICYB in Belgium. Be curious about some changes for ICYB 2010: There will be joint events for ICYB and IBF members for the first time at our conference. More details will be given by the organizers themselves in Frankfurt.

ICYB events during Frankfurt Book Fair 2009

ICYB — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:31:18 +0000

ICYB Fellow Meeting

Place: Börsenverein booth, Hall 4.0 G1339
Time: 16.10.09, 12:00 to 13:00

The Fellow Secretary Meeting will be held before the open event at the Börsenverein booth. The Fellow Secretaries will receive their invitations asap.

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ICYB and E-motion@l Bookselling

Place: Bildungswerkstatt / Forum Zukunft, Hall 4.0
Time: 16.10.09, 13:00 to 14:00

Young Booksellers report new ideas developed at the International Congress of Young Booksellers (ICYB) in Frankfurt and give a preview to the conferences in 2009 and 2010 and their hosting countries. Following the presentation ICYB and Frankfurt Book Fair will invite to drinks and snacks at the Clients Lounge in Hall 4.1.

BIBY 2009

icyb — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:35:01 +0000

Annika Arting from the Faroe Islands convinced the participants of ICYB 2009 with her candidate for the Booksellers´ International Book of the Year: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson!

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul…

All international publishers who are interested in this award are more than welcome to contact ICYB President Susanne Meinel at meinel@buchnrw.de.

ICYB 2009 in Frankfurt

icyb — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:49:18 +0000

The 52nd ICYB took place from the 24th until the 30th of May 2009 in Frankfurt, at the Frankfurt Bookselling School and brought together young booksellers from six European countries. The theme of this year’s congress was ‘E-motion@l bookselling’ and Miriam Feldmann, Susanne Meinel and Jennifer Orth have put together an excellent all encompassing program. In short it contained:

SPEECHES:
- The German book trade in figures
- E-books and electronic publishing
- The E-book market and its demands on booksellers
WORKSHOPS:
-Sales training by groups
-Presentation with workshop by the Frankfurt Book Fair
VISITS:
-Group exploration of various bookshops in Frankfurt
-To Koch, Neff & Volckmar, a book wholesaler in Stuttgart, guided tour and presentation
-To the Offices of Frankfurt Book Fair
-To the the German Literary Archive

The full program can be found at ICYB 2009 as well as general information on the ICYB .

All the different aspects of emotianal bookselling made up the program and formed a wonderful, interesting and atmospheric week: exploring Frankfurt bookstores and their approaches to e-books, a sales training illustrating how emotional selling can be and of course many, many speeches teaching young booksellers a lot about their job.

Where should ICYB 2010 take place?

icyb — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:40:47 +0000

Bookselling Academy: Seduce your customer!

icyb — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:34:04 +0000

Bookselling Academy on In-store Marketing

We are delighted to announce that the International Booksellers Federation (IBF), the Independent Business Forum of the BA, The London Book Fair and the International Congress of Young Booksellers are jointly organising a one-day seminar, ‘Seduce your customer’ on the 22nd April 2009 at the London Book Fair at Earl’s Court from 9am till 5pm. This event is an excellent opportunity for internationally minded booksellers to enlarge their horizons and to embrace new ideas. The speakers at this event are:

Claudia Bollenbacher, Consultant, Store Design
Damian Horner, Freelance Marketing Consultant
Elaine Silverwood , SilverDell Bookshop and Ice Cream Parlour
Elyse Godsworth, Regional Manager, Waterstones, Waterstones
Fran Dubruille, Director , EBF/IBF
Jeff Clark , In House Designer, Foyles
Zamir Cajee, Marketing Director, www.UKWebco.com

It is the first time that the ICYB is co-organising such an event at the London Book Fair and we are very grateful to the IBF, LBF and the BA Independent Business Forum for making this happen.
There are still a few seat available, needless to say it is an opportunity to great to pass up on. You can register at:

London Bookfair